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2023
- Take Two and Call Me in the Morning: The Story of Aspirin Revisited
- Promising Future, Complex Past: Artificial Intelligence and the Legacy of Physiognomy
- WHO: Picturing Health for All
2022
- AIDS Posters and Stories of Public Health: A People's History of a Pandemic
2021
- Outside/Inside: Immigration, Migration, and Health Care in the United States
- Fifty Years Ago: The Darkening Day
- Making a World of Difference: Stories About Global Health
2020
- Care and Custody
2019
- This Lead is Killing Us: A History of Citizens Fighting Lead Poisoning in Their Communities
- Rashes to Research: Scientists and Parents Confront the 1964 Rubella Epidemic
- Rise, Serve, Lead! America's Women Physicians
- Medicine On Screen: Films and Essays from NLM
- Politics of Yellow Fever in Alexander Hamilton’s America
2018
- Graphic Medicine: Ill-Conceived and Well Drawn!
2016
- Fire and Freedom: Food and Enslavement in Early America
- Physician Assistants: Collaboration and Care
2015
- For All the People: A Century of Citizen Action in Health Care Reform
- Confronting Violence: Improving Women’s Lives
2014
- Pictures of Nursing: The Zwerdling Postcard Collection
- Pick Your Poison: Intoxicating Pleasures & Medical Prescriptions
2013
- From DNA to Beer: Harnessing Nature in Medicine and Industry
- [Archived] Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture (see Surviving and Thriving: AIDS, Politics, and Culture, 2021)
- [Archived] Medical Movies on the Web (see Medicine on Screen, 2019)
2012
- A Voyage to Health
- Every Necessary Care & Attention: George Washington & Medicine
- [Archived] And there's the humor of it: Shakespeare and the four humors (see And there's the humor of it: Shakespeare and the four humors, 2022)
2011
- Building a National Medical Library on a Shoestring
- Native Voices: Native Peoples' Concepts of Health and Illness
- [Archived] Family Planning and Socioeconomic Development: Posters from China (see Family Planning and Socioeconomic Development: Posters from China, 2023)
- Life and Limb: The Toll of the American Civil War
- Emergency Preparedness and Response: How to Safely Conserve Library Treasures in the Case of an Emergency
- Emergency Preparedness and Response: Safely stabilizing library collections in a water emergency - Mobile Version
- [Archived] The Public Health Film Goes to War (see The Public Health Film Goes to War, 2023)
2010
- Binding Wounds, Pushing Boundaries: African Americans in Civil War Medicine
- [Archived] Most Horrible and Shocking Murders: "True Crime" Murder Pamphlets in the Collection of the National Library of Medicine (see Most Horrible and Shocking Murders: "True Crime" Murder Pamphlets in the Collection of the National Library of Medicine, 2023)
- [Archived] Consumptive Disease: Chinese Anti-Tuberculosis Posters, 1950 - 1980 (see Chinese Public Health Posters, 2023)
- An Odyssey of Knowledge
- [Archived] Physicians in the Shenandoah Valley: Henkel Family Letters, 1786-1907 (see "Physicians in the Shenandoah Valley: Henkel Family Letters, 1786-1907," 2023 in Circulating Now)
- [Archived] Health for the People: Continuity and Change in Asian Medicine (see Chinese Family and Child Health Education, 2023)
- [Archived] An Iconography of Contagion (see An Iconography of Contagion, 2022)
2009
- The Literature of Prescription
- [Archived] Chinese Anti-Malaria Posters (see Chinese Public Health Posters, 2023)
- Renaissance Science, Magic, and Medicine in Harry Potter's World
- Rewriting the Book of Nature: Charles Darwin and the Rise of Evolutionary Theory
2008
- The American Clinical and Climatological Association: 1884-1984
- Everyday Miracles: Medical Imagery in Ex-Votos
- [Archived] Hooke's Books: Books that Influenced or were Influenced by Robert Hooke's Micrographia (see "Hooke’s Books: Influences around Robert Hooke’s Micrographia," 2020 in Circulating Now)
- AIDS Ephemera
- Against The Odds: Making a Difference in Global Health
- [Archived] Here the Frailest Leaves: The National Library of Medicine's Bathtub Collection (see Here the Frailest Leaves: The National Library of Medicine's Bathtub Collection, 2022)
2007
- Cholera Online: A Modern Pandemic in Texts and Images
- [Archived] Do Mandrakes Really Scream? Magic and Medicine in Harry Potter
- [Archived] John Ballard Blake, Ph.D.
- [Archived] Diseases of the Mind: Highlights of American Psychiatry through 1900 (see Diseases of the Mind:Highlights of American Psychiatry through 1900, 2024)
- [Archived] Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons (see Opening Doors: Contemporary African American Academic Surgeons, 2023)
2006
- [Archived] Animals as Cold Warriors: Missiles, Medicine, and Man's Best Friend
- [Archived] Chinese Public Health Posters (see Chinese Public Health Posters, 2023)
- From 'Monsters' to Modern Medical Miracles: Selected moments in the history of conjoined twins from medieval to modern times
- [Archived] The Horse: A Mirror of Man: Parallels in Early Human and Horse Medicine (see The Horse: A Mirror of Man: Paralells in Early Human and Horse Medicine, 2021)
- Visible Proofs: Forensic Views of the Body
2005
- [Archived] Stanley Jablonski: Beneath the Surface
- Time, Tide, and Tonics: The Patent Medicine Almanac in America
- [Archived] Medicine in the Americas (see Medicine in the Americas, 2023)
2004
- [Archived] Turning the Pages Online
- Francisco Goya Prints at the National Library of Medicine
- [Archived] So, What's New in the Past? The Multiple Meanings of Medical History (see So, What's New in the Past? The Multiple Meanings of Medical History , 2022)
- [Archived] Tempest in a Teapot (Tea & Politics & Health)
2003
- Changing the Face of Medicine
- Historical Anatomies on the Web
2002
- [Archived] Early Western Manuscripts in the NLM (see Early Western Manuscripts at NLM, 2021)
- Profiles in Science
- Smallpox: A Great and Terrible Scourge
- [Archived] Dream Anatomy (see Dream Anatomy, 2022)
- [Archived] Greek Medicine from the Gods to Galen (see Greek Medicine from the Gods to Galen, 2023)
- [Archived] Joshua Lederberg: biomedical science & the public interest
2001
- [Archived] The Once and Future Web: Worlds Woven by the Telegraph and Internet
- Medieval Manuscripts in the NLM
- [Archived] Classics of Traditional Chinese Medicine (see Classics of Traditional Chinese Medicine, 2023)
2000
- Visit Historic Medical Sites Near Washington, DC
- [Archived] Emotions and Disease (see Emotions and Disease, 2021)
- Arabic (HMD): Islamic Medical Manuscripts at the National Library of Medicine
- [Archived] "That Girl There Is Doctor In Medicine" Elizabeth Blackwell, America's First Woman, M.D. (see "That Girl There Is Doctor In Medicine" Elizabeth Blackwell, America's First Woman, M.D, 2021)
1999
- [Archived] Breath of Life
1998
- [Archived] We Were Here First: The History of the NLM Site... (see "Who Was Here First," 2019 in Circulating Now)
- Frankenstein: Penetrating the Secrets of Nature
- NLM's Motion Pictures and Video about PHS (HMD)
1996
- An Online Art and Architecture Tour of the U.S. National Library of Medicine
1995
- Here Today, Here Tomorrow: Varieties of Medical Ephemera
1994
- [Archived] Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts (see Islamic Culture and the Medical Arts)
- "If You Knew the Conditions ...;" Health Care to Native Americans
- Images from the History of the Public Health Service
- Perez on Medicine: The Whimsical Art of Jose Perez
- The Art of Medicine at the 21st Century [Work by May Lesser]
- [Archived] A Photographic Gallery: Images of NLM and NIH
1993
- Cesarean Section -- A Brief History
- Paracelsus, Five Hundred Years: Three American Exhibits
1987
- [Archived] Origins of the NIH (The Flags and Organizations Under Which It Has Served)
1986
- [Archived] New Frontiers in Health Communication - Sesquicentennial 1836 - 1986

Last Reviewed: January 24, 2024